Autonomous vehicles on Irish roads 'in next few years'

Self-driving vehicles will "inevitably" reach Ireland within years, the man behind a global tech conference has said. Philip McNamara said that the technology was 40 times safer than manual driving and it was only a matter of time before people backed the industry. The MobilityX conference in Dublin tomorrow will focus on self-driving cars. "I live in San Francisco and there's hundreds of self-driving cars that are on the streets every day," Mr McNamara, originally from Galway, said. "I think it's inevitable that they will be over here in a few years' time.